It could happen.
The indispensible Nate Silver over at 538.com has posted this article on the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. (‘Bulo aside: Anyone who loves polls and polling analysis must make 538.com essential daily reading. The Beast Who Slumbers suspects that John Tobin takes the blog into the bathroom with him, and that’s as far as ‘bulo will go. Special bonus points for Nate Silver: He was one of the creators of the Baseball Prospectus, one of the greatest ‘bathroom’ books of all-time, and ‘bulo’s favorite private-time companion.)
Anyway, the Compact:
seeks to encourage state legislatures to pass laws requiring that their electors be allocated based on the nationwide popular vote, provided that a sufficient number of other states do the same. If states totaling at least 270 electoral votes (an outright majority of the total available) sign the Compact, it would become active, and this would theoretically guarantee (provided there were no unfaithful electors) that the winner of the popular vote would also win the Electoral College.
Until states approving the compact aggregately reach the magic 270 mark, electors would be awarded the current way. So far, states totalling 50 electoral votes have signed the Compact into law. No legislator has even introduced this bill in Delaware, an oversight that ‘bulo hopes this article may rectify .
While Silver does not think that the Compact will reach critical electoral mass anytime soon, he does describe a scenario that could lead to its passage.
Please read the article and let Delaware Liberal know whether this is something that you’d like to see.